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UN high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet addresses a press conference in the hotel InterContinental Dhaka on 17 August 2022 after warping up her official visit to Bangladesh.

Enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings Form independent body for investigation: Bachelet tells govt

UN high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet has said she urged the government to form an independent and specialised mechanism to investigate enforced disappearances and extrajudicial ...

Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is speaking at a press conference at the BNP chairperson's Gulshan office on Wednesday.

Govt corruption, the root of all crises: Mirza Fakhrul

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam has blamed the government's corruption for the today's dire straits of economy including price hike of daily essentials

Mohammad Ali Mia

CID gets new head in Mohammad Ali Mia

The home ministry has brought some changes to the organogram of police, reshuffling the leadership in some key posts

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir addresses a doa-mahfil programme organised at the party’s Naya Paltan central office marking 77th birthday of party chairperson Khaleda Zia and praying for her speedy recovery on 16 August 2022

BNP demands independent UN investment on ‘Aynaghar’

BNP is extremely concerned about the ghastly picture netranews has published of torturing the political leaders and activists at Aynaghar, a torture cell run by the Bangladesh government’s ...

Launches waiting at Sadarghat terminal in Dhaka

Launch fare increased by 30pc

The government has raised launch fare by 30 per cent and it is supposed to come into effect immediately from Monday

United Nations high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet

Meeting with Michelle Bachelet Activists express concerns over rights violation, freedom of expression

During the meeting, the issues of rights situation in Bangladesh, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, Chittagong Hill Tracts, torture of minority communities, and attack and filing cases ...

Supreme Court building

Houses of Speaker, Deputy Speaker on JS premises legal: SC

On 21 June, 2004, the High Court passed an order on the petition saying the construction of the new buildings were illegal and directed to declare the National Parliament House as “national heritage”

In this file photo taken on 17 August 2021 Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra

Overseeing five ministries Australian PM accuses Morrison of ‘trashing’ democracy

Some ministers of the former government have said they were not told that Morrison appointed himself to their portfolios -- including then finance minister Mathias Cormann, now secretary-general of ...

United Nations high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet meets home minister ‘People go missing in Bangladesh for three reasons’

Government has told United Nations high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet, people go ‘missing’ in Bangladesh for three reasons

On the first day of her visit to Bangladesh, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet holds a meeting foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on 14 August 2022

Michelle Bachelet’s visit Discussion on enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killing, DSA

Different issues including extrajudicial killing, enforced disappearance, freedom of expression, media freedom and various other aspects of human rights were discussed in the meeting, said concerned ...

Editorial

Increased production cost: Subsidise diesel to save agriculture

The country will survive if agriculture thrives—this is not mere words. During the pandemic, mainly agriculture and export sector kept our economy running

Editorial

TCB family card: Where is transparency and accountability?

The findings of a recent study by the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), conducted on TCB family card are very worrying

Representational image of power supply line

Govt backtracks from LNG-fired power plant

There is no assurance of LNG availability and the price is also high in the global market

A general view of the city of Kabul, Afghanistan on 5 August, 2022

Misery and disease conquer Afghanistan a year into Taliban rule

Poverty in the country -- felt most keenly in Afghanistan’s south -- has been driven to desperate new levels, exacerbated by drought and inflation since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

United Nations high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet

Rohingya crisis UN rights chief to visit Rohingya camps in Bangladesh

The visit will be one of the former Chilean president’s final acts as the United Nations high commissioner for human rights before her four-year term expires at the end of the month

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